ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to determine the nature of the youths` subjectivity at a school in a diverse rural mining environment. The study was done in an isolated rural mining environment.
Space is ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis I analyse policies and strategies to reduce poverty through education, and the focus is on global and national policies and strategies and I conduct a small-scale investigation into policies ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The political dispensation in South Africa after 1994 experienced a complete change in different spheres of life. Not only was the country greeted with a new democratic government system, but also with ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: SACTE is a distance education provider for practising educators in the
Republic of South Africa. As a distance education provider, SACTE has to rely
on teaching and learning media other than the tutor ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Through policy document analyses and in-depth semi-structured interviews, this
thesis examines the potential of higher education policy frameworks to engender
quality university education in Malawian ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The central question of this thesis is whether education policy frameworks are sufficient
to transform the higher education system in South Africa. I hold that higher education
policy initiatives ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores the notion of (higher) education transformation in relation to
logically necessary conditions which guide the concept. These logically necessary
conditions (constitutive ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There are many new developments in education taking place specifically in the
field of schooling. Some of these developments - school based management,
OBE curriculum developments and the devolution ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This qualitative study explores the effect that staff deployment has on the morale and
professional attitudes of educators who have been identified as being in excess at their
schools. The study was ...

In this dissertation I critically explore school governance in relation to a liberal conception of deliberative democracy incorporating an argument for democratic citizenship. The notion of decentralisation and representative ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is a conceptual analysis of “institutional culture” in higher education, especially because the concept has become a buzzword in higher education discourse in South Africa. The aim is ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this critical-hermeneutical inquiry into schools as learning organisations I use the service provision model of the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) as an exemplification of the concept of a ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation I critically explore educational leadership and management practices in
relation to how current school principals lead and manage schools in a democratic society.
The aim of this ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The greatest challenge facing the Head of Department is how to successfully manage change. Since 1994 a plethora of changes have taken place in Education. Increasingly schools are being held responsible ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the role and responsibility of the university in educating students to be democratic citizens in a cosmopolitan world, with specific reference to South African higher education, and ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study deals with an analysis of Mozambican education policy documents, linking this
analysis to theories of democratic citizenship education. It suggests that, for Mozambican
people to become ...

Zuber-Skerritt and Perry (2002:177) posit that action learning and action research are appropriate and effective methods for developing a person’s managerial 'soft' skills, competencies and other attributes required by ...

Information is a necessary resource, produced by information systems and is a key building
block to the management and decision-making in any organisation. The National Department
of Education’s guidelines to establish ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The democratic elections in South Africa in 1994 were followed by far-reaching changes. Legislation was changed to entrench the democratic principles of the young democracy and to involve South African ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis analyses some of the major education policies in Namibia since
the introduction of a democratic government in 1990. The analysis reveals
that democratic participation through stakeholder ...